We are free and we won’t go back
to being slaves and masters,
because organised we’ll win
and defeat any invasion.
With education fighting, producing
we shall win, they won’t be able to defeat us
or force us to give in, if they arrive
they’ll be in trouble, with education
they shall not pass!

Acknowledgment: These poems were originally published in "Mujer en Nicaragua"
by Editorial Nueva Nicaragua in association with AMNLAE (Luisa Amanda Espinosa Association of
Nicaraguan Women) (Managua 1984), then published in bilingual edition, translated by Dinah Livingstone,
by the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign (London 1999).